Cuspidor-carrier.



No. 799,421. PATENTED SEPT. 12, 1905. W. B. TSGHARNBR 6: G. G. LOONEY.

GUSPIDOR CARRIER.

APPLICATION mum a. 26, 1905.

-- UNITED STATES "PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. TSCHARNER AND CHARLES C. LOONEY, OF LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN.

CUSPlDOR-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1905.

Application filed April 26, 1905. Serial No. 257,557.

and CHARLES C. LooNEY, citizens of the United States, and residents of La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse and State of Wisconsin, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Cuspi: dor-Carriersrand we declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention. Fig, 2 is a similar view, on a smaller scale, of the invention as applied. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view showing the angular juncture of the shoulder portion g and the arm h.

The invention relates to devices for carrying spittoons and cuspidors; and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the letters a a designate the and connected by the transverse handle-bar it. At the angular juncture of the shoulder por.

tions g and the arms h bearings m are provided for a pivot-bolt p. The branches are similar to each other, except that the bearings m in one branch are nearer together than they are in the other branch, so that they will register, and thus provide for the passage of the pivot-bolt.

When the device is in upright position, or nearly so, as in carrying cuspidors, the parts .2 and handle-arms h extend upward, and the lower portions d, as well as the shoulder portions 9, extend toward each other.

The handle-bars and the concave bearing-bars 6 extend transversely. The relation of the arms 7t and the handle-bars to the curved bearingbars is such that when the latter are applied to the neck of a cuspidor to grasp it the handle-bars are closed toward each other, so as to be readily grasped by one hand: The portions 2 of the branches of the device are made long enough for the reception of several cuspidors one upon another between such portions, these cuspidors being prevented from falling away from the carrier not only by their engagement with each other, but also by the parallel bars 2, which form guard-bars.

With this device cuspidors can be placed one upon another, and when the hearing or grasping bars 6 are. engaged with the neck of the lowest cuspidor the pile can be carried away without handling. So, also; the cuspidors can be emptied and washed without touching them.

As shown in the drawings, the device is formed of two pieces of heavy wire bent and twisted into form.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cuspidor-carrier consisting of pivoted tongs each member of which has two upright parallel guard-bars having lower inward an gular extensions connected by a transverse curved bearing-bar, and upper inward angular extensions having pivot-bearings, and handle-arms connected by atransverse handle-bar, said tongs being pivoted together at said pivotbearings, substantially as specified.

2. A cuspidor-carrier consisting of pivoted tongs each member of which has two upright guard-bars having inward connected extensions at top and bottom thereof, substantially as specified.

' In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

W. B. TSCHARNER. CHARLES C. LOONEY.

Witnesses:

J. H. MILLER, LOUIS J. Panama. 

